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China's first domestically produced passenger jet, the C919, took off on its maiden commercial flight on Sunday, a milestone event in the nation's decades-long effort to compete with Western rivals in the air.    

China Eastern Airlines flight MU9191 rose into the skies above Shanghai Hongqiao Airport just after 10:30 a.m., footage from state broadcaster CCTV showed.    

Overview of the site of the 2021 Alaska Airbus AS350 B3 helicopter crash from the NTSB preliminary report. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Greek airline Sky Express is returning to the Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum for a second time, hoping to strengthen ties with the cruise industry.

Sky Express has been on a steady upward course, with the addition of two Airbus A321neo aircraft in the second quarter of 2023, enabling the airline to connect the world with 34 enchanting Greek destinations.

THY Teknik has signed an agreement with Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (ERW), center of excellence for Airbus Passenger-to-Freighter conversions, to collaborate in A330P2F conversions.

Air France and aircraft maker Airbus go on trial in Paris today on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 crash of a flight from Brazil, killing all 228 people aboard.

The case focuses on alleged insufficient pilot training and a defective speed monitoring probe, which was quickly replaced on planes worldwide in the months after the accident.

Albania's national air carrier, Air Albania, will connect Athens with Tirana with four flights a week. More specifically, Air Albania will operates flights to / from Tirana-Athens on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Turkish Airlines (THY) aims to achieve double-digit growth rates this year and in 2023, the chairman of the company's board and the executive committee has said.

"We are working hard to meet strong demand for domestic and international flights," Ahmet Bolat told reporters on a flight that marked the launch of the flag carrier's flights to Seattle.

McDonald's will pay 1.25 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in France to avoid a legal case over tax evasion between 2009 and 2020, under an agreement approved yesterday by a Paris court.    

In a few days, SKY express will strengthen its fleet with a new Airbus A320neo. The airline, which during the pandemic renewed its fleet with new aircraft and "opened" its activity abroad, is launching in 2023 the acquisition of two more A321 type aircraft.

"The plane was three hours and 20 minutes late. Not far from the Russian border with Latvia, we were warned to try to visually identify the plane next to ours. There was a military fighter. Russian air traffic control asked our pilot to visually identify the fighter, flying just a kilometer below our plane near the border of Latvia.